- Title:
- Tynemouth Pier - Lighting the Lamps at Sundown
- Date:
- 1868
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, gum, and scraping out on medium, cream, slightly textured wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (37.1 x 54 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower left: "A W Hunt 1868"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1980.3
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- blue | lamps (lighting device components) | lantern (lighting device) | light | lighthouse | man | marine art | meteorology | moon | night | pier | science | storm | sunset | waves (natural events)
- Associated Places:
- England | North Tyneside | Tynemouth | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25)
Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1993-02-11 - 1993-04-12)
Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-09-09 - 1992-11-01)
Victorian Landscape Watercolors (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992-11-18 - 1993-01-03)
Alfred William Hunt (Ashmolean Museum, 2005-01-26 - 2005-04-03)
Alfred William Hunt (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-09-15 - 2004-12-12)
- Publications:
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Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Mapping a National Style, topography & landscape at the Yale Center for British Art , Apollo, v. 165, no. 542, April, 2007, p. 59, fig. 11, N1 A54 + (YCBA)
Christiana Payne, Where the sea meets the land, artists on the coast in nineteenth century Britain , Sansom & Co., Bristol, 2007, ND1373 G7 P38 2007 (YCBA)
Roger Quarm, Masters of the sea, British marine watercolours , Phaidon, Oxford, UK, 1987, p. 66, ND2272 G7 Q73 (YCBA)
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 7, 26, no. 94, color pl. 11, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Eric Shanes, Turner, the great watercolours , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2000, pp/ 50, 5-52, fig. 29, NJ18 T85 S446 2000 (YCBA)
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 7, 26, no. 94, color plate 11, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10894
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Alfred William Hunt, 1830–1896, British, Tynemouth Pier - Lighting the Lamps at Sundown, 1868
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